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Originally Posted by kn
My wife is Russian and a Permanent Resident. She is in Russia right now with our daughter and trying to get out via Azerbaijan or Kazakstan. I wonder about potential backlash when she gets back when people find out she's originally from Russia.
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That's terrible. You see increased vitriol being spewed about "Russians" on internet message boards and even the call to expel them from countries simply for being Russian (I can understand the reasoning if they are oligarchs or are connected to them), despite these people not having done anything wrong other than I suppose being born Russian? Sorry to hear about what your wife and daughter are going through.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I certainly hope everyone is able to separate the common Russian citizen from the actions of their country's dictator. Ordinary Russians -- even some of the soldiers currently fighting and dying in the invasion -- are just as much a victim of Putin as the people in Ukraine are. I'd like to think that the average Canadian/American/European/etc. isn't going to hold Russian immigrants accountable for a war they had absolutely no control over, but after seeing racist idiots direct hate towards Asian immigrants over COVID, I'm not so confident that will be the case.  |
Good post and yup, good example with the hate we received over COVID and tons of other examples in our history including the mentions earlier about Germans being subjected to rape, robbery, etc. after World War 2 because they were... German.